Esther 3:8-13
8Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom. aTheir laws are different from those of every other people, and they do not keep the king’s laws, so that it is not to the king’s profit to tolerate them. 9If it please the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay 10,000 talents ▼▼A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms
of silver into the hands of those who have charge of the king’s business, that they may put it into the king’s treasuries.” 10 cSo the king took his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman dthe Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, ethe enemy of the Jews. 11And the king said to Haman, “The money is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you.” 12 fThen the king’s scribes were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month, and an edict, according to all that Haman commanded, was written to the king’s gsatraps and to the governors over all the provinces and to the officials of all the peoples, hto every province in its own script and every people in its own language. It was written iin the name of King Ahasuerus jand sealed with the king’s signet ring. 13Letters were sent kby couriers to all the king’s provinces with instruction lto destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all Jews, young and old, women and children, min one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, nand to plunder their goods.
Psalms 82:2-4
2“How long will you judge unjustlyand oshow partiality to pthe wicked? Selah
3 qGive justice to rthe weak and the fatherless;
smaintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.
4 tRescue the weak and the needy;
udeliver them from the hand of the wicked.”
Acts 7:19
19 vHe dealt shrewdly with our race and forced our fathers to expose their infants, wso that they would not be kept alive.Acts 9:14
14And here he has authority from xthe chief priests to bind all who ycall on your name.”Acts 22:5
5as zthe high priest and aathe whole council of elders can bear me witness. From them I received letters to abthe brothers, and I journeyed toward Damascus to take those also who were there and bring them in bonds to Jerusalem to be punished.Acts 26:12
Paul Tells of His Conversion
12“In this connection acI journeyed to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests.
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